Search results: “"Plato"”

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  • Ancient Philosophy: A Companion to the Core Readings

    Ancient Philosophy: A Companion to the Core Readings

    Ancient Philosophy: A Companion to the Core Readings is designed as an approachable guide to the most important and influential works of ancient philosophy. The…

  • Ancient Political Thought

    Ancient Political Thought

    This book presents selections from the political and social thought of the ancient West from the early sixth century BCE up to the early years…

  • Antigone

    Antigone

    Sophokles’ Antigone is an ancient play that speaks directly to contemporary issues. From conflicts between authoritarian regimes and those who protest them to struggles over…

  • A Reader in Moral Philosophy

    A Reader in Moral Philosophy

    This lively anthology provides classic and contemporary defenses and critiques of the central ethical theories, along with readings on a selection of moral issues such…

  • Art and Interpretation

    Art and Interpretation

    Art and Interpretation is a comprehensive anthology of readings on aesthetics. Its aim is to present fundamental philosophical issues in such a way as to…

  • A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder

    A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder

    Drifting on a sailing boat off the Canary Islands, four British gentlemen take turns reading a manuscript that they find inside a copper cylinder discovered…

  • Basic Issues in Medieval Philosophy - Second Edition

    Basic Issues in Medieval Philosophy – Second Edition

    In this important collection, the editors argue that medieval philosophy is best studied as an interactive discussion between thinkers working on very much the same…

  • Beyond the Pleasure Principle

    Beyond the Pleasure Principle

    Beyond the Pleasure Principle is Freud’s most philosophical and speculative work, exploring profound questions of life and death, pleasure and pain. In it Freud introduces…

  • Ethical Theory: A Concise Anthology - Third Edition

    Ethical Theory: A Concise Anthology – Third Edition

    This concise anthology collects important historical and contemporary readings on the central ethical theories, including Divine Command Theory, Consequentialism, Deontology, Virtue Ethics, and Feminist Ethics.…

  • Experiencing Philosophy - Second Edition

    Experiencing Philosophy – Second Edition

    Experiencing Philosophy begins with the assumption that philosophy is not merely something you know but also something you experience and participate in. The book presents…

  • Flatland

    Flatland

    Flatland (1884) is an influential mathematical fantasy that simultaneously provides an introduction to non-Euclidean geometry and a satire on the Victorian class structure, issues of…

  • Great Philosophers

    Great Philosophers

    Great Philosophers tells the story of Western philosophy through the thought of its main protagonists, the great philosophers. The narrative begins with the Presocratic philosophers…

  • Human Life and the Natural World

    Human Life and the Natural World

    Human concern over the urgency of current environmental issues increasingly entails wide-ranging discussions of how we may rethink the relationship between humans and the rest…

  • Introducing Philosophy: Knowledge and Reality

    Introducing Philosophy: Knowledge and Reality

    This book introduces the central issues of metaphysics and epistemology, from skepticism, justification, and perception to universals, personal identity, and free will. Though topically organized,…

  • Life Examined: Foundational Themes in Ethical and Socio-Political Thought

    Life Examined: Foundational Themes in Ethical and Socio-Political Thought

    Life Examined is an anthology of carefully edited readings designed to serve as an introduction to many of the fundamental concepts of ethical and socio-political…

  • Literary Theory and Criticism: An Introduction - Second Edition

    Literary Theory and Criticism: An Introduction – Second Edition

    Literary Theory and Criticism: An Introduction provides an accessible overview of major figures and movements in literary theory and criticism from antiquity to the twenty-first…

  • Medicine and Healing in the Premodern West: A History in Documents

    Medicine and Healing in the Premodern West: A History in Documents

    Medicine and Healing in the Premodern West traces the history of medicine and medical practice from Ancient Egypt through to the end of the Middle…

  • Natural Beauty

    Natural Beauty

    Natural Beauty was selected for the Choice Outstanding Academic Title list for 2008! Natural Beauty presents a bold new philosophical account of the principles involved…

  • Nicomachean Ethics

    Nicomachean Ethics

    Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics is a book of enduring relevance that aims to answer the question of how human beings should live. Much, however, has changed…

  • On the Genealogy of Morality

    On the Genealogy of Morality

    On the Genealogy of Morality is a history of ethics, a text about interpreting that history, and a primer on interpretation in general. It also…

  • Philebus

    Philebus

    The Philebus is the only Platonic dialogue that takes as its central theme the fundamental Socratic question of the good, understood as that which makes…

  • Philosophy and Death

    Philosophy and Death

    Philosophical reflection on death dates back to ancient times, but death remains a most profound and puzzling topic. Samantha Brennan and Robert Stainton have assembled…

  • Philosophy of Mind: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives - Third Edition

    Philosophy of Mind: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives – Third Edition

    This book introduces students to the principal issues in the philosophy of mind by tracing the history of the subject from Plato and Aristotle through…

  • Readings in Ethics

    Readings in Ethics

    Readings in Ethics offers a vast collection of carefully edited readings arranged chronologically across five historical periods. The selections cover many major Western and non-Western…